They are trying to add a "high capacity" magazine ban to a cyber security bill.

This is orchestrated by gun manufacturers and dealers.

The last time they had a ban, they sold enough "high capacity" magazines to reach Mars and back, before the ban went into place.No one really gave a damn about them before the ban.Then everyone switched to large calibre guns in places where they couldn't use the grandfathered magazines (california).I would too.

I called beretta at one point about a part, and they had shut down everything to make magazines 24 hours a day until the ban started.We will never run out, thanks to the "ban".

The "assault rifle" ban made the modern pattern single fire rifle ie "assault rifle", the hunting weapon of choice and dominant in the usa.The manufacturers made a bit of cash off that one, as the "assault rifle" ban never ended for foreign made rifles and shotguns.It actually was made stricter.

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.

In March 1998, a Robert Smigel animated short film, "Conspiracy Theory Rock", aired on snl.

The short is a scathing political sketch accusing corporations including Disney, FOX, and then-owners of NBC General Electric, of developing a media monopoly to manipulate public perception, and conceal questionable actions.

The clip aired only once as part of the original SNL episode and was removed from syndicated repeats with Michaels explaining that it "wasn't funny".

They. . . brought us parrots and balls of cotton and spears and many other things, which they exchanged for the glass beads and hawks’ bells. They willingly traded everything they owned. . . They were well-built, with good bodies and handsome features. . . . They do not bear arms, and do not know them, for I showed them a sword, they took it by the edge and cut themselves out of ignorance. They have no iron. Their spears are made of cane. . . They would make fine servants. . . . With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.

“Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has ‘closed,’ the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. AND I AM CAESAR.”

Pastor Niemoller spoke for the thousands and thousands of men like me when he spoke (too modestly of himself) and said that, when the Nazis attacked the Communists, he was a little uneasy, but, after all, he was not a Communist, and so he did nothing: and then they attacked the Socialists, and he was a little uneasier, but, still, he was not a Socialist, and he did nothing; and then the schools, the press, the Jews, and so on, and he was always uneasier, but still he did nothing. And then they attacked the Bacon, and he was a Burner, and he did something - but then it was too late.

Pastor Niemoller spoke for the thousands and thousands of men like me when he spoke (too modestly of himself) and said that, when the Nazis attacked the Communists, he was a little uneasy, but, after all, he was not a Communist, and so he did nothing: and then they attacked the Socialists, and he was a little uneasier, but, still, he was not a Socialist, and he did nothing; and then the schools, the press, the Jews, and so on, and he was always uneasier, but still he did nothing. And then they attacked the Bacon, and he was a Burner, and he did something - but then it was too late.